"The two-hour documentary…follows the book's conceit: It takes the plants' point of view in exploring whether they control humans to ensure their survival."Elizabeth Jensen, The New York Times

"The PBS program looks at how plants have evolved and prospered by making themselves 'eye candy' to humans and other living things. Call it survival of the most alluring."Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times

"A live cannabis bud, extremely close up, looks like an exotic salad a four-star chef might dream up — a tangled concoction of orange filaments and white froth on a convoluted crown of green matter. What gardener wouldn't be smitten?"Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle

"Certain plants succeed in getting humans to help them evolve and establish in places they couldn't get to without us, and they do it by appealing to human desires."Therese Ciesinski, Organic Gardening